Cuff-holder.



No.723,454. Q PATENTED MAR. ,1 3,

0. A. FOSTER.

CUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 25. 1902.

Io MODEL. I V" x W I I Imenzfl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FOSTER, OF LEW ISTON, MAINE.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,454, dated March24, 1903. Application filed April 25, 1902 Serial Ila 104,639. (Ndmodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine,have invented an Improvement in Gulf-Holders, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, andefficient device for holding a cud in place in and connected with thesleeve of a coat, whereby the and will at all times be maintained in thedesired position relative to the coat-sleeve irrespective of theposition of the arm of the wearer, whether extended, bent, or hanging bythe side. When the coat is removed, the cuifs are removed simultaneouslytherewith and are in proper place when the coat is put on.

The various novel features of my invention will be hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in the following claim.

Figure l is a sectional view of a coat-sleeve and its lining and a cuff,one embodiment of my invention being shown in use; andKFig.

2 is an enlarged perspective view of thecuff-' holder shown in Fig.

In accordance with my invention I make the cud-holder from a long andrelatively narrow strip of suitable spring metal, such as nickel springsteel, and I bend the ends of the strip in opposite directions upon itto form two oppositely-extended spring-jaws, the body of the stripcooperating therewith to form the fixed jaw of each pair.

Referring to the drawings, a strip of spring metal is bent at its ends,as at a b, and turned over upon itself to form two spring-jaws a 1),extended in opposite directions, the jaw a.

being shown as substantially plane or flat,

while the jaw b is transversely corrugated, as at 6 for the greaterportion of its length. The part a of the strip adjacent the corrugatedjawis similarly corrugated to constitute the cooperating fixed jaw, andat a the strip is flattened to cooperate with the free end of the jaw aand constitutes the fixed jaw of the pair of jaws a. a The part a a ofthe strip between the bends a and b may be termed the body of thecud-holder. The bending of the strip is such that normally the jaw a ispressed against the part a of the body, and similarly the jaw b ispressed against the part a of the body, the bend I) being so made thatthe part a is ofiset toward and parallel to the jaw a, the parts a and athus being laterally offset from each other, and by the spring of thestrip said parts are pressed against the flat and corrugated jaws,respectively, when the article is not in use.

In Fig. l the cuff-holder is shown in use, the lining L of thecoat-sleeve S having a slit 5 made therein, and the jaw b is insertedthrough the slit between sleeve and lining, the latter being tightlygripped by the corrugated jaws (1 b retaining the cuff-holder in place.The edge of the cuff O is then pushed in between the jaws a a and heldbyfrictional engagement therewith in desired position relative to thesleeve. By making the cuff-engaging jawsflat the cuff is not in theleast marred or injured, and it can be adjusted by being pushed more orless into the jaws. Manifestly by thedevice shown and described the cuffis held in the sleeve in desired position and the cuff-holder isefiectually concealed from view.

The general shape of the cuff-holder in' side elevation is that of aflattened S, presenting two oppositely-open loops. Having described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a cuffholder consisting of a strip ofspring metal having its ends bent upon itself to formoppositely-extended spring-jaws, the central portion of the strip havingan elongated, flattened part to cooperate with the outer, fiat end ofone jaw and a transversely-corrugated part to cooperate with the freeend of the other and similarly-corrugated jaw, the said flattened andtransversely-corrugated central portions of the strip being laterallyofiset from each other, to press said portions into contact with thefiat and corrugated jaws, respectively.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN G. EDWARDS, I EMILY O. I-IoDGEs.

